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Cuckoo's Egg : Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll (2005, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherGallery Books

ISBN-101416507787

ISBN-139781416507789

eBay Product ID (ePID)44476108

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Book TitleCuckoo's Egg : Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEspionage, General, Mystery & Detective / General, Science & Technology

Publication Year2005

GenreTrue Crime, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorCliff Stoll

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight10.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Reviews"The Cuckoo's Egg is 'reader friendly,' even for those who have only the vaguest familiarity with computers...a true spy thriller....The hunt is gripping." -- Chicago Tribune, "The Cuckoo's Eggis 'reader friendly,' even for those who have only the vaguest familiarity with computers...a true spy thriller....The hunt is gripping."--Chicago Tribune, "Stoll's is the ever-appealing story of the little man bucking the system...great fun to read...lively and thoroughly absorbing."-- "The Philadelphia Inquirer", ""The Cuckoo's Egg" is 'reader friendly, ' even for those who have only the vaguest familiarity with computers...a true spy thriller....The hunt is gripping."-- "Chicago Tribune", "Stoll's is the ever-appealing story of the little man bucking the system...great fun to read...lively and thoroughly absorbing." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Stoll's is the ever-appealing story of the little man bucking the system...great fun to read...lively and thoroughly absorbing."--The Philadelphia Inquirer, CosmopolitanNothing short of fascinating...Even if you don't know a byte from a bagel,The Cuckoo's Eggwill grip you on page one and hold you as ferociously as the best mystery...It's the intensely human, often funny voice of the man on the trail that makes this book so wonderful.

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Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal364.16/8/0973

SynopsisIn this white-knuckled true story that is "as exciting as any action novel" ( The New York Times Book Review ), an astronomer-turned-cyber-detective begins a personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatens national security and leads all the way to the KGB. When Cliff Stoll followed the trail of a 75-cent accounting error at his workplace, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it led him to the presence of an unauthorized user on the system. Suddenly, Stoll found himself crossing paths with a hacker named "Hunter" who had managed to break into sensitive United States networks and steal vital information. Stoll made the dangerous decision to begin a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a high-stakes game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases, one that eventually gained the attention of the CIA. What started as simply observing soon became a game of cat and mouse that ultimately reached all the way to the KGB., Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating and] astonishingly gripping" (Smithsonian). Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB., Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies, "Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping"" (Smithsonian).Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.